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Toy Apes Doing the Macarena
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Who: Robert H. Teller, 62, president and founder, Tel Phil Enterprises Inc., which operates the Orange County Market Place.

Where: 504 S. Bay Front, Balboa Island, Newport Beach, Calif.

What you see: A life-size mountain gorilla on all fours. Mr. Teller purchased the plastic primate, covered in black synthetic fur, for a chain of frozen, chocolate-covered banana stores that never materialized. Never mind. The diehard...